MEASURING PRO-POORNESS: A UNIFYING APPROACH WITH NEW RESULTS

摘要: Recent economic literature on pro-poor growth measurement is drawn together, using a common analytical framework which lends itself to some significant extensions. First, new class of pro-poorness measures defined, complement existing classes, with similarities and differences are fully discussed. Second, all these can be decomposed across income sources or components consumption expenditure (depending the application). This permits analyst “unbundle” pattern growth, revealing contributions overall constituent parts. Third, modified measure at percentiles. An application expenditures in Indonesia 1990s reveals that poverty reduction achieved remains far below what would have been under distributional neutrality. tracked back changes components.